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Sunday, July 27, 2025Tom Lehrer Passed Away at the Age of 97Tom Lehrer passed away on Saturday July 26 at the age of 97. (For other obits see this collection of ten obits here.)He worked in both of my fields of interest: Parody Songs and Mathematics.1)  He got a BA in Mathematics from Harvard, magna cum laude, in 1946. (Spell check thinks magna  and laude are not words).2) While he was an und

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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:27:55 +0000typecastfocs metacommentsComputational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarchhttps://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/noreply@blogger.com (Lance Fortnow)Blogger3223125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3722233.post-6547507657809660654Mon, 28 Jul 2025 03:45:00 +00002025-07-29T12:27:54.983

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2025-07-28T21:28:21Z https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?feed=atom WordPress woit https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/blog https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=15113 2025-07-28T21:28:21Z 2025-07-26T18:51:09Z Continue reading →]]> The trustees on Friday changed the Charters and Statutes of the university, something it seems they can just do when they feel like it, without con

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The Situation at Columbia XXIXPosted on July 24, 2025 by woitThe long-awaited second cave-in by the Columbia trustees to Trump demands was announced yesterday, details here. A few initial comments:Columbia law professor David Pozen explains that this is part of a new form of autocratic government in the US:the agreement grows out of the executive branch’s first-ever cutoff of congressionally